@coolinfoforme If you’re using PHP, then use the following function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php. It will allow you to redirect the browser to a different site. For example, `header(‘Location: http://yoursite.com/dashboard/‘);` will redirect the browser to the dashboard site. In essence, you should check if the user is logged in using the session global variable (or `$_SESSION`) and if he/she is, redirect to the dashboard using the above function. Else, you would redirect the user to the login page using the same `header()` function.

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